SPF, which is an acronym for Sender Policy Framework, is an email protection system, which is employed to validate whether an email message is sent by an official server. Employing SPF protection for a domain will prevent the counterfeiting of email addresses made with the domain. In layman's terms: activating this feature for a domain name creates a special record in the Domain Name System (DNS) containing the IP addresses of the servers that are permitted to send e-mail messages from mailboxes under the domain. The moment this record propagates worldwide, it exists on all the DNS servers that route the Internet traffic. When a new e-mail message is sent, the first DNS server it goes through tests if it comes from an official server. In the event it does, it is forwarded to the destination address, but when it doesn't come from a server listed in the SPF record for the particular domain, it is rejected. Thus nobody will be able to mask an e-mail address and make it appear as if you are distributing spam. This approach is also termed email spoofing.

SPF Protection in Cloud Website Hosting

SPF protection can be enabled for any domain hosted in a cloud website hosting account on our cloud hosting platform with no more than a few clicks. The feature is available in the Emails section of our advanced Hepsia Control Panel and all you need to use it is to pick one of your domains from a drop-down menu and to enter the hostnames together with the IPv4 or IPv6 addresses of the e-mail servers that will be approved to send email messages from your email addresses. As an additional option you can also restrict the email messages to be sent from your domain name only when it includes our MX records, i.e. when our servers manage the e-mail addresses for it, not some third-party supplier. This option gives you the best level of safety, but it's not applicable in case only your website is on our servers while the e-mail addresses for the domain name are taken care of somewhere else. Either way, the SPF protection service will keep your emails safe from being used for spam or scam purposes.

SPF Protection in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you have a semi-dedicated server account from our company, you'll be able to secure your emails by enabling the SPF security service for every domain in your account with just a few mouse-clicks. You can do this from the Emails section of the Hepsia Control Panel that is provided with the semi-dedicated accounts and even if you lack previous experience with such matters, you will not have any kind of trouble to enable the protection. All that you will need to do is to choose a domain name from a drop-down list and after that type in the mail server hostname and IPv4 or IPv6 address. When the updated record propagates, messages from your emails will be mailed globally only if they're sent from that server. When your emails are taken care of by us and not by some third-party provider, you will also be able to benefit from an option for email messages to be sent only if the domain includes our MX records and this would be the safest option. If you have any questions regarding thisfeature, you'll be able to get in touch with our technical support team 24/7.